CSE 111 Help

Finding help for a programming assignment requires time. Therefore, it is important that you start each prove assignment as soon as you can after completing the preparation content, checkpoint, and team activity. In other words, students who wait to start a prove assignment until one hour before it is due, often encounter errors that prevent them from completing the assignment on time. Please start each prove assignment as soon as you can.

The following resources are available to you to help you understand the concepts and complete the assignments in CSE 111.

Teammates

As a CSE 111 student, you are part of a team of students from your class. Your team has a channel in Microsoft Teams (or Slack) where you can post questions. Any questions that you post in your team’s channel can be seen by your teammates and your teacher. Because all your teammates and your teacher can see your question, there is a good chance that one of them will be able to answer your question.

Artificial Intelligence Tutor

You could use a generative AI as a tutor to help you write and troubleshoot your program. Bro. Lee Barney created a custom Chat GPT named Pythonista that is fine-tuned to focus on Python functions, loops, if statements, and related programming concepts. If your program is generating an error, ask Pythonista a question like this:

I'm writing a Python program that (type a short description of your program here). When I run my program, it causes the following error. Please suggest some mistakes that might cause this error.

(Copy and paste the error message here.)

You could also ask Pythonista a question about one of your functions, like this:

I wrote the following Python function that is supposed to (type a short description here). However, the function isn't (type what it's not doing correctly here). Please help me fix this function.

(Copy and paste your Python function here.)

Human Tutor

As a BYU-Idaho campus or online student you can get help from a tutor to complete your CSE 111 assignments. Each tutor is a current BYU-Idaho student employed by BYU-Idaho. Meeting with a tutor is free. It will not cost you any money to meet with a tutor. To get help from a tutor, you simply make an appointment and then meet with the tutor. Campus students meet with tutors in the tutoring center. Online students meet with tutors in Zoom. To make an appointment, follow the instructions in the course tutoring guide.

Teacher

You can send a question to your teacher through I‑Learn or e-mail. Remember that most online teachers teach part-time and have a different full-time job. This means that most online teachers cannot immediately respond to your e-mail. They must wait until their full-time job ends for the day, and then they can read and respond to your e-mail. This response delay is another reason to start each prove assignment as early as you can. When you start an assignment early, there will be time for you to send a message to your teacher and time for your teacher to respond before the due date and time.

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